This week I was mostly thinking about Scrum and how it can affect developer happiness and productivity. I have certainly an opinion, but I am still in the data and information gathering phase. I also caught up with podcasts again. Lots of good stuff about management. Management Introducing DecisionOps - I am not sure that word will catch on, but still a nice post ...
I am rethinking these posts again. I have a plan … maybe. If you enjoy a long read, check out The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done or The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream. If you like photos Training for Tokyo: how athletes prepared and how they did or Dead white man’s clothes. Management The Big Project Syndrom - we all have been there ...
No random section today! I am catching up with my podcasts and really enjoyed the one about Sad Days. It also seems that climate change will affect more of our life sooner than most expected. Management How to Motivate Your Team [Comic] - another good strip from Basic Instructions We should allow sad days, not just sick days [Podcast] - I certainly could have used a few sad days … and maybe I took them ...
Because I am travelling at the moment we have another double pack. Good stuff on management this week and depressing on the environment as usual. I haven’t decided if I’ll add a anti-cryptocurrency section or if I just leave it out. For now it is in random. Management The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers - I am not sure what is so micro about them, but still not bad for a list like this ...
Lots of technology links and longer reads today. Management The Planning Fallacy - what to do about underestimating Limits to one Product Backlog - 3 - continuation, but I am slowly loosing interest Windmills: Can Scrum be fixed? - Ron is still on a mission Sharing our Engineering Career Framework with the world - another one. It has a lot of different roles, which is nice Why ‘bring solutions not problems’ doesn’t work - I recently started wondering about this and some other common advice too ...